ACC Actively Facilitated Medical Education Cooperation and Exchange between China and ASEAN Member States

Since establishing partnership with Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) in 2012, the cooperation between ASEAN-China Centre  (ACC) and SEAMEO became more and more pragmatic and deep. SEAMEO and its 21 subsidiary regional centers hope to strengthen contacts and cooperation with relative Chinese institutions via ACC.

Invited by SEAMEO TROPMED Network, ACC consulted the Second Military Medical University, and invited Vice Professor Du Yan of Tropical Medicine and Public Health Faculty to participate in the 53rd Governing Board Meeting (GBM) in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 20 August 2014. Director-General Or Vandine of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia chaired the meeting and the members of GBM from ASEAN countries attended the event.

Vice Professor Du Yan in his remarks briefed on the faculty’s organization structure, composition, research area and the academic exchange condition in the area of military medical research with America and Thailand. During the meeting, Vice Professor Du Yan met and discussed with the members of GBM on the possible cooperation with SEAMEO TROPMED Network on course building, talent training and scientific research. The members of GBM hoped to better understand the development of Chinese Tropical Medicine and Public Health in order to further  the cooperation. 

On the meeting, it was decided that to better promote cooperation with China, the next GBM would be held in Shanghai in the third week of August 2015 which marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of SEAMEO TROPMED Network, and would invite representatives from related medical colleges to attend.

Furthermore, the Network proposed to work with ACC, unite with some of Chinese medical colleges, co-write and publish “Traditional Healers of Southeast Asia and China”. In this connection, ACC is actively contacting and arranging two experts from the Network to attend the ASEAN-China Traditional Medical Education Training Seminar to be held at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 17 to 21 November 2014.

SEAMEO TROPMED Network is an inter-governmental organization with both teaching and research, contributes to train the talents on public health and tropical medicine，promote exchange and cooperation among ASEAN and other countries and regions, jointly facilitate a development of public health. The network includes Malaysian regional center set up in Kuala Lumpur Institute of Medical Research, namely microbiology center, parasitology center and entomology center; the Philippines regional center set up in the School of Public Health, University of the Philippines, namely public health center, hospital management center and environment and occupation health center, as well as Thailand regional center set up in the Department of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, namely tropical health center.